Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Nobody:
Every hotel: *renovates their bathrooms to put in shiny chrome-plated showers more complex than a petroleum processing plant that nevertheless flood water all over the floor*
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Nu crises zich opstapelen, dreigen jongeren het vertrouwen in het Nederlandse overlegmodel te verliezen. Waar dit bij sommigen tot cynisme en apathie leidt, roept het bij anderen vooral strijdlust op. Zo zijn het ook vandaag vooral jongeren die met Extinction Rebellion de A12 in Den Haag bezetten. ‘Er verandert pas wat als er buiten de instituties om druk wordt gezet.’
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/we-moeten-wel-de-straat-op?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon
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Waar vreedzame demonstranten worden bedreigd met een waterwerper, rijden elders dus doodleuk vrachtwagens door een blokkade nadat een shovel die vernield heeft.
Vrachtwagens rijden demonstratieterrein Zuiderpark op nadat shovel blokkade vernielt - @TransportOnline
https://www.transport-online.nl/site/151819/vrachtwagens-rijden-demonstratieterrein-zuiderpark-op-nadat-shovel-blokkade-vernielt/
NL politics, but in English
In case you missed it: the government has sent military police to intimidate climate protesters, as well as a water cannon, and seems to have started arresting people again
meta, grumbly
It's "funny" how in some people's eyes, known bad actors always deserve more benefit of the doubt than the people who block them - "we should wait until it's proven that they're evil"
naming question, software dev
For an API that lets you define the structure of a database, which of these naming schemes is better? It should be clear and *feel* nice and unintimidating to work with.
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How come there isn't any game using ActivityPub?
I should probably search for that before asking 👀
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Comment on FDIC takeover of SVB
The culture that prides itself on moving fast and breaking things and insisting the government is too slow is now experiencing a government agency that is famous for moving fast and breaking things.
Oddly they seem displeased.
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By the way, if you are transgender, and visit Tokyo's famous gay quarter, Shinjuku Nichōme, you should be aware that you are likely to encounter hostility or be flat-out refused entry in MANY lesbian and gay bars. I don't know if things have changed since the pandemic (I certainly hope so), but I had numerous traumatic experiences, even at bars that had previously seemed welcoming. Dorobune is one women's bar that I can 100% vouch for.
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Customer: MY NAME IS BROCK AND BROCKLI (BROCCOLI) IS MY NICKNAME.
DMV: BROCOLLI CAN BE ANOTHER WORD FOR MARIJUNA
Verdict: DENIED
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I keep seeing academics very excited for some bright and shiny #AI future where like all information self assembles and you can know anything instantly and you write papers by just gesturing at a thought with a couple of sentences and I have no idea how they don't see a) that playing out as them getting further trapped onto extractive platforms, b) not actually going to work even remotely like that and c) that sounds pretty bleak to me even if it did work 100% as intended
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had a lot of fun hanging out with Peter Thiel last night over wine. we came up with a goofy idea to short Silicon Valley Bank then induce a bank run by telling all of his startups to withdraw at the same time. thankfully it was just a fun thought experiment to prime us for the cocaine we ended up doing. i don't remember the rest of the night, it's probably fine. now, let me take a big sip of this coffee while I check my Bloomberg terminal and get my day started
Aaaaaand there's the expected terrible take from gargamel
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I remember when I was working at Technorati, the first and best blog search engine, and Google announced it was going to do blog search. We said something very similar to this:
Gotta wonder how much VC money just evaporated
"SVB was also the preferred bank for various giants in the crypto VC world, including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital"
lol. lmao.
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In the airport there are people wearing masks and people hacking their lungs out, but somehow these are never the same people.
NL politics, but in English
So police has sabotaged tomorrow's XR climate protest by - again - arresting people ahead of time, and by installing fencing around the protest location to get in the way of the low-risk "supporters protest" on the side of the to-be-blocked road.
Meanwhile, fascist farmers also have a protest planned tomorrow, they completely ignored the agreed-upon schedule, showed up a day early for build-up, and they were just told by cops that they could continue.
So, y'know.
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pol, rant, A12
Ik ben fucking woest.
De gemeente liegt over hun communicatie, ze zijn alweer mensen vooraf aan het arresteren, er staan hekken rondom de tunnelbak van de A12.
https://twitter.com/LWinnips/status/1634309627314683904
Demonstratierecht gaat regelrecht de afvalbak in lijkt het. "gaaf land".
Ik ben fucking woest. Tot morgen.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
